Miguel Veiga-Pestana

Conduit Conversations at COP26: Miguel Veiga-Pestana

Miguel Veiga-Pestana is Chief Sustainability Officer at Reckitt, a consumer goods company whose brands include Dettol, Durex, Finish, and Nurofen. Miguel oversees the development and integration of Reckitt’s sustainability and purpose-led agenda.

He speaks about how consumer behaviour responds to and elicits change from big businesses, he speaks of the challenges and successes of phasing single-use plastics out of consumer product packaging, and reflects on the corporate leadership needed to drive the necessary momentum towards net-zero.

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